An old Southeast Asian line

The story

More than 50,000 years ago, a woman walked out of Africa. Her daughters, and their daughters, followed the coasts east, and on the way the R9 family grew. It is the parent of the F family, now common across Southeast Asia, and its own rarer branches still live in Southeast Asia, southern China and Taiwan. Every mother since passed it on. You still carry it.

The road, stop by stop

1. East Africa
   More than 50,000 years ago
   Her line, later named N, leaves Africa with some of the first people to settle Asia.
2. South Asia
   On the way east
   The line follows the warm southern coasts; branch R grows from N on the way.
3. Southern China
   Tens of thousands of years ago
   Branch R9 likely grows up in southern East Asia, and from it F.
4. Mainland Southeast Asia
   Around the last Ice Age
   Branch R9b likely grows up in Indochina and later spreads down the Malay Peninsula.
5. Malaysia
   Today
   You. Your result on atgc.asia shows how common this line is among the Malaysians we have tested.

Where it is found today

Its own branches, R9b and R9c, are found in mainland Southeast Asia, the Malay Peninsula, Indonesia and Taiwan; its daughter F is far more common.

Most often found in: China, Laos, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam.

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